Arab and Muslim World in International Relations

23th November 2017.
European Solidarity Centre
Gdańsk, Poland.

Third edition of the international academic & business conference Arab and Muslim World in International Relations

The conference will be held in Gdańsk (Poland), in the European Solidarity Centre on 23th November 2017. This invitation is addressed to scholars, researchers, experts and professionals interested in the broadly defined Arab and Muslim World reaching from the West Africa through the Middle East and Central Asia until the Far East. The major focus of the conference is on the Middle East countries, yet topics related to the Muslim countries of the Far East (e.g. Indonesia), Central Asia (e.g. Pakistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan), or North Africa (e.g. Algeria, Morocco) are also within the conference agenda.

Conference Objectives:

Share information on research and exchange opinions among academics and professionals specializing in the Arab and Muslim region;
Promote cooperation between academia and business;
Explain economic, political, and legal dilemmas of the Arab and Muslim World;
Expand the academic and business-academic cooperation between Higher Educational Institutions from Poland and the Arab and Muslim countries, including development of joint research projects;
Provide space for expanded business cooperation between entrepreneurs from Poland and the Arab and Muslim countries;
Understand cultural differences among and within the countries involved in the conference, and thus contribute to the intercultural dialogue.

he conference will address four major dimensions of international relations in the Arab and Muslim World: Politics, Economy, Law, and Culture

Language: The working language of the conference is English.

Special Guest:

Ashraf El-Sherif is a lecturer in political science at the American University in Cairo. He is an expert in political Islam, state-religion relations, democratic transition, social movements, and state-society relations in the Middle East and North Africa. He was a nonresident associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He has contributed to several journals and newspapers in English and Arabi.

Chair: Professor Rafał Ożarowski, University of Business and Administration, Poland

Yehuda Udi Blanga, PhD, Bar-Ilan University, Israel, The Rise of the Phoenix: The Muslim Brotherhood and the Civil War in Syria
Konrad Pędziwiatr, PhD, Cracow University of Economics, Poland, State as a Key Actor in Politicization of Islam in Egypt and Tunisia Before and After the Arab Spring
Ali Jafari, PhD Candidate, International Institute for Islamic Studies, Iran, ISIS and Fundamentalist Religious Interpration of Islam
Rafał Kobis, PhD Candidate, Jagiellonian University, Poland, Riffian al-Hirak Movement – The new (political) face of Berberism in Morocco
Patryk Jędrowiak, PhD Candidate, University of Wroclaw, Poland, Hizmet Movement and public diplomacy of Turkey

Panel 9 Identity and Culture in the Muslim World

Venue: Room No. 5 (level +1)

Chair: Professor Adriana Łukaszewicz, Kozminski University, Poland

Professor Yuriy Skorokhod, Taras Shevchenko National University in Kyiv, Ukraine, Consociational democracy”: the model of the democratization of deeply divided Arab societies?
A. Z. Obiedat, PhD, Wake Forest University, USA, Identity Contradiction in Islamic Awakening and the Reformation Attempts
Michał Moch, PhD, Kazimierz Wielki University, Poland, Popular Culture, Politics and Ethnicity. New Forms of Popular Music in Palestine/Israel
Magdalena Mateja, PhD, University of Nicolas Copernicus, Poland, Media images of civil war in Syria and its consequences: child as a symbol of death and destruction